TRANSGENDERThe full story of that trans ice hockey match and the uncomfortable truths it helped reinforce and the efforts progressives have gone to stop anyone finding out.

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[–]UncleWillard56 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

First, it's insane not to recognize that trans women are going to dominate physically over trans men. Why they didn't just segregate it by gender (fuck non-binary, that's not a thing); trans women playing other trans women, etc. That would make more sense. There's no open tournaments for coed hockey are there?

Second, if you have to tell a team to ease up in a competition just to make it look fair, go fuck yourself. That's not a sport, it's entertainment. It's just like professional wrestling then.

I see nothing wrong with trans leagues. Let trans women compete against each other. I'm not going to watch it, but hell, it'll keep them out of women's leagues.

Fuck the NHL with it's stupid "trans women are women" answer. It's not an answer at all. If you can't be honest with yourself about biology in a sport? You have no business being in charge. That person should be fired.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fairly certain Adult amateur ice hockey is coed because of the lack of women interested in playing, but it’s also no-checking and where there are enough women to form a league they have a women-only league.

No-checking makes a huge difference for safety, but obviously won’t eliminate the other advantages (height, speed, strength etc). As soon as you add checking in it becomes very dangerous for women.

A friend of mine met his wife playing ice hockey in Hawaii.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I played a little hockey on a men's team because the policy was for the local men's teams to take in interested women with the hope that we could one day form a women's league if they retained enough of us. It pretty much sucked though. I couldn't really play because I just wasn't willing to risk an injury as the guys were checking each other. There was a whole thing about it one night after I left as they shouldn't have been checking with a woman playing.

And while I appreciate that, I also felt it wasn't fair on the guys to not be able to play properly and constantly having to pull themselves back and not fully enjoy their play. I get a lot mentally from my sports and I don't want anyone to take mine from me and I don't want to take someone else's away from them. So I just concluded hockey wasn't for me and left the guys to properly enjoy their games. It's easier to see how transwomen have the potential to destroy women's sports but I think that biological females in men's sports can destroy men's too. Because most men don't actually want to risk seriously hurting a woman and will pull back out of caution and then not get the same pleasure and release from their sports. There is a place for mixed games like tag rugby/mixed tennis etc but only when it's what the players signed up for because mixed versions of sports are very different from single sex. For a lot of people, the joy comes from being really able to throw themselves into physical activities and this shit will ruin it for everyone, not just women.